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What is needed is more photos of happy smiling Iraqis enjoying their new freedom and showing their gratitude to coalition forces......
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Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
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Text accounts of this are quite sufficient, in my view.Originally posted by Ted Striker Let the People Know the Facts and the Country Will Be Saved. - Abraham LincolnI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I'm afraid we would have to pay them too much this month. Maybe you would accept photos from January?Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
What is needed is more photos of happy smiling Iraqis enjoying their new freedom and showing their gratitude to coalition forces......I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Ahhh, but as the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words."
Besides, we love to show our successes off (how many MILES of footage have there been of our various successes in GW1 and 2)?
We screwed up. Let's bear up and admit to it. Show the world our mistake, FIX it so it doesn't happen again, make reparations and issue a public apology, keep EVERYONE apprised of our actions against the individuals who committed the crimes so that all will know that we won't stand idly by and let things of this sort happen.
Anything less and we don't deserve to call ourselves "the good guys."
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I want to know, but I don't want to see the pictures. Same goes for the Highway of Death, for example.Originally posted by mrmitchell
It's what your tax dollars are paying for don't you think you want to know?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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The Highway of Death was a stupid name - most Iraqis had learned to get out of their tanks when the planes arrived by then.Comment
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release the pics
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Very perceptive. I do have a beef with the media on this issue. I don't think ordinary people want to look at these kind of pictures any more than they want to look at pictures of a mass murderer in action. But they believe they have a duty to plaster ackowledged misdeeds in the "heat" of the action wall-to-wall.Originally posted by Theben
I'm going to infer that your gripe is with the media b/c you & I know any new video/photos will be all over the news. That's how the media markets work these days, Dan, trying to make the most $$ from any story they think the public will listen to. Considering how capitalistic the strategy is, I would think you were all for it.
What comes next? Is Time going to have a download repository of all AC-130 gunner videos, because we need to know what our tax money is going toward? Hey, make sure we have audio!Last edited by DanS; May 30, 2005, 00:08.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Dan, I don't know about you, but for myself, seeing is believing. If you don't want to see these photos, tear the page out of the newspaper.
I want to know, but I don't want to see the pictures. Same goes for the Highway of Death, for example.
Besides, in this case I think pictures would be meant to be the foundation for a written account in this case, more than they would be meant to supplement it.meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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I think they should be released if the victims authorize the publication of any that might be considered humiliating and where the victims can be identified. We owe them that much.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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You support the war. People like you most of all need to see the obscenity you are supporting.Originally posted by DanS
I want to know, but I don't want to see the pictures. Same goes for the Highway of Death, for example.Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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Spoken like a true Commie!Originally posted by Agathon
He could sell that nick.
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I don't need people like you who think they know what's best for me to decide what pictures I see. It's the same condescension that the media indulges in.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
You support the war. People like you most of all need to see the obscenity you are supporting.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Originally posted by DanS
Very perceptive. I do have a beef with the media on this issue. I don't think ordinary people want to look at these kind of pictures any more than they want to look at pictures of a mass murderer in action. But they believe they have a duty to plaster ackowledged misdeeds in the "heat" of the action wall-to-wall.
What comes next? Is Time going to have a download repository of all AC-130 gunner videos, because we need to know what our tax money is going toward? Hey, make sure we have audio!
You completely missed the point of my posts. Why do you think we still have photos of lynched blacks? Photos of mass graves in Nazi concentration camps?
Photos are often the best way to show to the world the inhumanity of human rights violations.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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You're Theban's DL?You completely missed the point of my posts.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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